(Maftir) ²¹ He who kills an animal is to make restitution, but he who kills another person is to be put to death. ²² You are to apply the same standard of judgment to the foreigner as to the citizen, because I am Adonai your God.”

²³ So Moshe spoke to the people of Isra’el, and they took the man who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him to death. Thus the people of Isra’el did as Adonai had ordered Moshe.

Haftarah Emor: Yechezk’el (Ezekiel) 44:15–31

B’rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Emor: Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:38–42; Galatians 3:26–29 [In connection with the feasts, see readings for Parashah 41]